Sunday, 22 May 2016

Happiness - Quotes

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The continual search for happiness is a
primary reason that so many people are miserable. If you make happiness your
goal, you are almost certainly destined to fail. You will be on a continual
roller coaster, changing from successful to unsuccessful with every mood
change. Life is uncertain, and emotions aren’t stable. Happiness simply cannot
be relied upon as a measure of success. - John
C. Maxwell

The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see
how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful
countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make
other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and
happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the
world. - Hugh Black

Happiness, like air and water, the other two
great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another
kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which
would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from
that which would be putridity to the loftier. - Walter Savage Landor

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear
understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some
things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and
learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner
tranquillity and outer effectiveness become possible. - Epictetus